How can we any longer believe anything our governments tell us about
their actions in the Middle East?

Immediately after Bush's ultimatum to Iran which was rebuffed, conventional
and normal captures and military incursions on both sides, when measured against
the bellwether of the usual temperature of chaos in the region, are suddenly
hyped beyond all proportion by the world media.

Israel's bombardment of the length and breadth of Lebanon has been characterized
by its targeting of innocent civilians - including two
incidents in Marwaheen and Taire where civilians were ordered to leave an
area whereupon their escape vehicles were deliberately pulverized by Israeli
Hellfire missiles.

At their root these are the very characteristics of a terrorist state engaging
in terrorist attacks upon innocent populations.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah's limited response has impacted mainly military targets
- with many suggesting that the often recycled pictures of damage from Hezbollah
rockets betrays the notion that thousands have been fired as the Israelis claim.

Some would go further and finger the Israelis for attacking their own interests
to maintain a false scapegoat and justification for further evisceration in
Lebanon. Israel's documented history of manufacturing phony
Al-Qaeda groups to demonize the Palestinians is without question.

Israel's insistence that a ground war and an advance into northern Lebanon
is not out of the question could bring the Syrians and their Iranian allies
into the conflict which would in turn would present the saliva-drenched Neo-Cons
with their long-awaited pretext to take Assad and Ahmadinejad out of the game.

This is nothing less than a cooked escalation for war.

As reported by New
Yorker magazine, US troops and special operations forces have been active
inside Iran for over a year waiting for the right opportunity to enact destabilization
tactics once the green light is given.

This is simply another fuse that has been lit to ignite the order
out of chaos agenda that has already turned Iraq into a hellhole only stable
enough for one foundational precedent - a limitless occupation and an endless
slush fund of no-bid contracts for US government affiliated corporations. In
addition, tight control of oil flow and jacked-up prices to promote artificial
scarcity worldwide continue to benefit blueprints
laid out by oil companies many years before.

Whether it stops in Lebanon or rolls into Syria - this is the orchestration
of World War 3, World War 4 to Neo-Cons - if only on the level of a trial balloon
to judge how events will play out when a similar hand is dealt.